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Gaza: IDF airstrikes 3 schools Hamas using as command posts, house in refugee camp; soldiers drive off crowd in Netzarim Corrider
2024-10-02
IDF says it struck Hamas terrorists using school in Gaza; 9 reported dead
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it struck Hamas terrorists who were operating from a school in central Gaza, guided by pinpoint intelligence. Hamas was using the school as a base to plan and to carry out “terror attacks against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel,” says the military.

The IDF says that ahead of the strike, it carried out a number of steps “to limit the harm to civilians.”

The WAFA Palestinian news agency reports that at least nine Palestinians were killed and 20 injured in the strike on the school, where displaced people were sheltering.

IDF says it carried out strikes on Hamas members operating out of former schools in northern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out targeted strikes against Hamas operatives at command rooms embedded in former schools in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF says.

According to the military, Hamas was using command rooms in the Muscat and Rimal schools in the north of the enclave to “plan and carry out terrorist operations against the IDF and the State of Israel.”

The IDF says it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, and accuses Hamas of “systematically” using civilian sites for terror.

IDF: Troops open fire after Palestinian suspects approach in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor; 3 reported dead
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of Palestinian suspects began to approach Israeli forces in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip this evening, the IDF says. The military says the suspects “posed a threat,” and the troops opened fire at them. No soldiers were hurt in the incident, which the IDF says is “under control.”

Palestinian medical officials say that Israeli forces killed at least three people trying to return to their homes in the northern Strip. The al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central town of Deir al-Bahah says that IDF troops opened fired at the men. An Associated Press journalist saw ambulances taking people to the hospital, and counted the bodies. The officials said the men were among a group of people trying to return to their homes.

At least 11 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, Gaza medics say
At least 11 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, Gaza medics tell Reuters after midnight on Tuesday.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF, which says it takes steps to avoid casualties to civilians while Hamas embeds its fighters among them.
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